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Sunday, 18 October 2015

Part
II.Anne Hathaway
Birthdate: April 12, 1982
Nationality: American
Won 1 Oscar for Best Supporting Actress Les
Miserables (2012)

From
pretty in pink and elegant in between castle walls, Anne Hathaway made her first major career move by acting alongside
family favorite actress Julie Andrews,
Marry Poppins (1964) and Sound of Music (1965) a young,
spontaneous, charming, Anne took the world by surprise in Princess Diaries (2001) and Princess
Diaries 2: A Royal Engagement (2004), the two Disney films are considerable
modern family classics, with a clumsy princess taking the reign in a fairy tale
kingdom, Ella Enchanted (2004) was
the story of a more mature princess roaming between two worlds in search of her
prince charming.

The Sound of Music (1965)Won 5 Oscars8/10

MarryPoppins (1964)Won 5 Oscars8/10

The Princess Diaries (2001)7/10

The Princess Diaries 2:Royal Engagement (2004)8/10

Ella Enchanted (2004)6/10

With all the charm running out so fast in all directions, Anne
refused to become the Disney model her career was pushing her towards, so her
next projects turned the princess into a sexually aware drug teasing teenager
in Havoc (2005), a film that is
considered an indie production and dramatizes the relationship between teens
and peer pressure with gang bangs, rape and drug abuse. Other brilliant indie
movies on the topic would be Brick
(2005), Spun (2002) and Mysterious Skin (2004).

Havoc (2005)8/10

Brick (2005)7.5/10

Mysterious Skin (2004)7.5/10

Spun (2002)6.5/10

The follow
up to Havoc came with genius director Ang
Lee on his controversial movie that stirred the world up for having Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal as two cowboys secretly in love with one another in
Brokeback Mountain (2005) Anne
delivered a stunning presence in the movie and it was clear that she was no
longer the princess Disney needed, and her ascension got her to work alongside
the queen of actors in The Devil Wears
Prada (2006) as Andy Sachs a new graduate she starts an internship for Meryl Streep, a combination that proved
very effective with Meryl’s bossy devilish character and Anne’s purity and
fearsomeness the two raised the boundaries of comical films in this gem of a
movie. After playing an intern who can barely make it through the day in the
office Anne travels back in time, to London to portray the most renowned female
writer of our generation and she transforms herself into Becoming Jane (2007) as Jane Austen she is more aware of herself and
more confident with a cup of tea in hand.

Borkeback Mountain (2005)Won 3 Oscars8.5/10

The Devil Wears Prada (2006)8/10

Becoming Jane (2007)7/10

Through the worlds of books Anne ends
up in Tim Burton’s adaptation of Alice in Wonderland (2010) alongside Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter the film saw Anne back in Disney studios but
the film wasn’t able to click with the non-Burton fans, so along with her roles
in between 2008 – 2010 Alice might have been late for her cup of tea and better
left in a mad hatters hat… with screen time alongside Steve Carell in spy comedy Get
Smart (2008),Patrick Wilson in
psychological thriller Passengers (2008),
Kate Hudson in romantic comedy Bride Wars (2009), Anne only had one
brilliant role as a depressed young lady who can’t seem to have inner peace
with herself or peace with her family after the death of her sister in the
drama Rachel Getting Married (2008)

Alice in Wondreland (2010)Won 2 Oscars6.5/10

Get Smart (2008)7/10

Bride Wars (2009)5.5/10

Passengers (2008)5/10

Rachel Getting Married (2008)7.8/10

By the
turn of the decade Anne teamed up with Jake
Gellynhaal once again and this time in a semi erotic film with loads of
turmoil while dealing with a very psychological character in Love & Other Drugs (2010) the
follow up films had her on Christopher
Nolan’s sets as Catwoman/ Selina Kyle in The Dark Knight Rises(2012)
and as an astronaut/ physicist in Interstellar
(2014) both roles were magnificently portrayed in two major blockbusters… However,
the voice of Anne and the most dazzling performance of hers came on the set of Les Miserables (2012) as she
transformed intoFantine singing on
set while letting go into her characters shoes Anne earned herself her first
Academy Award and made the world ponder at the glory of a most versatile
actress of her age.

Love and Other Drugs (2010)7.8/10

The Dark Knight Rises (2012)9/10

Interstellar (2014)Won 1 Oscar8.8/10

Les Miserables (2012)Won 3 Oscars9/10

After
graduating from underneath bad ass boss Meryl Streep, Anne becomes the broken
devil in her most recent achievement alongside the lord of all actors Robert (Bobby) DeNiro… in The Intern (2015) this softly pleasant comedy
about two different generations shows the royalty of these two sensational
actors in a most innocent and humane way possible.

Saturday, 17 October 2015

British films have
always been one of the best encounters over the years, and this summer all the
way through spring an array of films were released. Top of the list and the
most popular title is the show runner, double trouble, and master-class
performance by Tom Hardy in LEGEND (2015).

7/10

Legend tells the true
story of two twin brothers one with wit and charms the other with schizophrenia
and lots of brotherly love, a film that delivers on many levels, emotionally
binding, gory at times and brutally explicit at others. Director Brian Helgeland follows up his triumph
in baseball based movie 42 (2013),
with something way more aggressive, with Emily Browning narrating and guiding
us through Legend, it is poetic at times and grindhouse madness at others. This
film sort of strikes memory to Guy
Ritchie films such as Rock N Rolla
(2008) and Snatch (2000).

Rock N Rolla (2008)Guy Ritchie8/10

Snatch (2000)Guy Ritchie9/10

42 (2013)Brian Helgeland7/10

However, Legend might feel a bit blasted out
of proportion in its portrayal of the two brothers. Therefore, if you have the
time and enjoy low key films you rather get your hands on the other film about
the same subject titled The RISE of the
KRAYS (2015), works as a prequel to Legend and the actual rise of Ron and
Reggie, this film is not very highly rated and also has a planned sequel The Fall of the Krays (2015). While the
two brothers spar with one another and go head to head with other gangs around
London in both films, they stay slightly below the hype and glamour of Legend.

7/10

This might be Tom Hardy’s finest
moment since his rise in BRONSON (2008)
and back breaking role in Dark Knight
Rises (2012) all the way to his amazing thrill ride in LOCKE (2013). The Drop (2014)
was yet another momentum film experience with Tom Hardy at the helm of it alongside Noomi Rapace, the magnitude of the drop is the thin line between
friendship and neighborly trust and the impact of crime life on the apparently
calm society, this film could easily have been titled about a dog. If cold
sights are intriguing enough for you as a spectator, Hardy finds himself once
again entangled underneath the snow but this time in a time piece based on the
book of the same title Child 44 (2015)
in this World War film Tom teams up
with Noomi Rapace once again while he
plays a disgraced Soviet Soldier in the Stalin era investigating a series of
child murders. This film plays like a slow paced piece of classical music with
a crescendo worth waiting for.

Sunday, 20 September 2015

After a very long career Johnny Depp is back, the
real talent of the man behind the many faces that mesmerized us on the silver
screen is back.

At the age of 52 Johnny is considered one of the
most prolific actors of his generation, with characters verging from the
Frankenstein-esque Edward Scissor hands (1990) all the way to the mediocre
Mortedcai (2014)

While the general audience loves Depp’s more popular
roles, from Captain Jack Sparrow (2003, 2006, 2007 & 2011), and a few
classics such as Donnie Brasco (1997) alongside Al Pacino, Ninth Gate (1999),
and the dark eerie thriller Secret Window (2004). Johnny Depp is an actor whose
glorious performances are beyond these few characters and the Burton
Collaborations.

Here is a list of the less known Johnny Depp
master performances:

Benny & Joon (1993)

Johnny is not the lead actor in this romantic movie, but he manages to steal
away the show, with an awkward character that is believable and in search of
someone to care for him, in this performance Johnny shows a talent for making
use of everything at hand to trigger the laughs the audiences need. It is a
performance that reminds us how good Depp is even without the use of make-up.

What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? (1993)

Johnny is Gilbert in this masterpiece of a movie by
director Lasse Hallstrom, who manages to push the boundaries with Gilbert and
his brother played by a young Leonardo DiCaprio a match up that works magically
and drives tears of joy and compassion out of the soul, for these are two
perfect talents tangoing together in a dream like life.

Arizona Dream (1993)

In this auteur film by Emir Kusturica Johnny plays
Axel a young man lost in an unrealistic and dazzling love triangle. If dreams
were wished upon this is one flaming love story that throws of the bounds of
reality and itches between the nightmarish fantasies and the dreamy realities.

Dead Man (1995)

Depp is William Blake in Jim Jarmusch’s western
poem, a native American journey between the land of the living and the life of
the dead, a brutal insight into the world of spirituality along with dashing
cinematography and yes Johnny has make up and he does recite a line or two of
poetry, and delivers them with utter magic.

The Libertine (2006)

Considered to be one of the lesser films of Johnny
Depp, but this dark shameless comedy, is a political and artistic slap in the
face for the whole of Europe precisely and the world in general, for speech
focused audiences, no, Depp doesn’t have the best accent for this role, but he
sure delivers some of the best lines ever uttered in cinematic history.

The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus (2009)

After the death of fellow actor Heath Ledger, Johnny
put on the face make up and got on set to help finish an unfinished Terry
Gilliam project, Depp is one section of the film a memorable section that is
filled with Johnny moments in a very Alice in Wonderland like setting, only
darker and more mature than the Tim Burton adaptation.

Rango (2011)

Apart from True Grit by the Coen Brothers, Rango
might easily be the best Western movie of the past few years a film so well
done with homages verging from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas all the way to
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, and throughout the musical course of the film,
the exciting adventures of Lizard Rango are bound to entertain and the punch
lines are sure to put a smile on your face for years to come… just keep an eye
for the slithering snakes.

Black Mass is in Theatres around Lebanon as of the 1st
of October, and it is Johnny Depps best performance since Public Enemies in (2009)

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